| United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (N.D. Fla.) |
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| Appeals to | Eleventh Circuit |
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| Established | February 23, 1847 |
| Judges assigned | 4 |
| Chief judge | Stephan P. Mickle |
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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (in case citations, N.D. Fla. or N.D.Fl.) is the federal United States district court with jurisdiction over the northern part of the state of Florida.
Appeals from cases brought in the Northern District of Florida are to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).
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History
On the same day that Florida was admitted as a state, March 3, 1845, Congress enacted legislation creating the United States District Court for the District of Florida, 5 Stat. 788.[1][2] On February 23, 1847, this District was subdivided into Northern and Southern Districts, by 9 Stat. 131.[1][2] The statute effecting this division set forth the boundaries of the Districts:
- [T]hat part of the State of Florida lying south of a line drawn due east and west from the northern point of Charlotte Harbor, including the islands, keys, reefs, shoals, harbors, bays and inlets, south of said line, shall be erected into a new judicial district, to be called the Southern District of Florida; a District Court shall be held in said Southern District, to consist of one judge, who shall reside at Key West, in said district...
The same statute directed the Northern District to hold court at Apalachicola, Florida, and Pensacola, Florida. On July 30, 1962 the Middle District was created from portions of the other districts by 76 Stat. 247.[2]
Jurisdiction
The court's jurisdiction comprises 23 counties: Alachua, Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Taylor, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington.
The four courthouses in which it hears cases are located in Gainesville, Panama City, Pensacola, and Tallahassee.
Judges
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| Winston E. Arnow | Lyndon B. Johnson | December 7, 1967 | March 14, 1981 | November 28, 1994 | death |
| Isaac H. Bronson | James K. Polk | August 8, 1846 | August 13, 1855 | – | death |
| G. Harrold Carswell | Dwight D. Eisenhower | April 10, 1958 | June 27, 1969 | – | reappointment |
| Lacey A. Collier | George H. W. Bush | November 18, 1991 | November 20, 2003 | Incumbent | – |
| Dozier A. DeVane | Franklin D. Roosevelt | April 22, 1943 | January 31, 1958 | December 15, 1963 | death |
| Philip Fraser | Abraham Lincoln | July 17, 1862 | July 26, 1876 | – | death |
| Lynn Carlton Higby | Jimmy Carter | October 5, 1979 | January 3, 1983 | – | resignation |
| Robert Lewis Hinkle | Bill Clinton | August 1, 1996 | Incumbent | – | – |
| Augustus V. Long | Franklin D. Roosevelt | June 4, 1934 | October 1, 1947 | May 20, 1955 | death |
| McQueen McIntosh | Franklin Pierce | March 11, 1856 | January 3, 1861 | – | resignation |
| Stephan P. Mickle | Bill Clinton | May 22, 1998 | Incumbent | – | – |
| David Lycurgus Middlebrooks, Jr. | Richard Nixon | December 11, 1969 | August 1, 1974 | – | resignation |
| Maurice M. Paul | Ronald Reagan | June 21, 1982 | July 31, 1997 | Incumbent | – |
| Margaret Catharine Rodgers | George W. Bush | November 21, 2003 | Incumbent | – | – |
| Thomas Settle | Ulysses S. Grant | January 30, 1877 | December 1, 1888 | – | death |
| William Bostwick Sheppard | Theodore Roosevelt | September 4, 1907[3] | April 21, 1934 | – | death |
| John Richard Smoak, Jr. | George W. Bush | November 3, 2005 | Incumbent | – | – |
| William Henry Stafford Jr. | Gerald Ford | May 14, 1975 | May 31, 1996 | Incumbent | – |
| Charles Swayne | Benjamin Harrison | May 17, 1889[4] | July 5, 1907 | – | death |
| Roger Vinson | Ronald Reagan | October 5, 1983 | March 31, 2005 | Incumbent | – |
| Curtis L. Waller | Franklin D. Roosevelt | June 19, 1940 | March 12, 1943 | – | reappointment |
| George William Whitehurst | Harry S. Truman | February 23, 1950 | June 30, 1961 | January 13, 1974 | death |
| George C. Young | John F. Kennedy | September 18, 1961 | September 17, 1966 | – | assignment to another court |
See also
References
- ^ a b Asbury Dickens, A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America (1852), p. 393.
- ^ a b c U.S. District Courts of Florida, Legislative history, Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 3, 1907, confirmed by the United States Senate on May 20, 1908, and received commission on May 20, 1908.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 5, 1889, confirmed by the United States Senate on April 1, 1890, and received commission on April 1, 1890.
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